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FrontFOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD COMES THE DEBUT RELEASE FROM NEW YORK MELODIC HARD ROCKERS 'WILD AUGUST'. BIG HOOKS , GREAT VOCALS AND A SMOKIN DUEL GUITAR ATTACK FROM DAN MCCAFFERTY AND ADAM ELSTER. ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL FOR ALL 80s HAIR METAL FANS.

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FrontProgressive rock band from Falun with influences from: Black Sabbath King's X, Rush, Mars Volta, King Crimson, Tool, Porcupine Tree and so on... Renaissance of Fools was found by former guitarist and composer of Pain of Salvation, Daniel Magdic, and Magnus Karlsson from Thalamus. They started to write material for their first album Fear, hope and Frustration which was released by Metalville in 2011. The album had a guest appearance by Per Wiberg of Opeth and received good reviews in the press.

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10921844_10152800488306144_645259385_nFirst off I’m a fan. No point hiding it. Having said that, the wait for this one was more nerve wracking than any wait over the last thirty years when bands you’d got into failed miserably with their eagerly anticipated follow-up. Eldorado’s previous efforts, More»


What If 2000 (1987) frontBRILLIANT 10/10. This can only be best described as heavied up West Coast, somewhere between Mr Mister, Tim Feehan and latter-day Richard Marx. The fluid guitar of Landau and the impressive vocals of Funderburk tips the scales in my favor though the overly laden brass parps from Larry Williams keyboards do tend to get slightly overbearing at times. However, for the most part it's stylish AOR/melodic rock.

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FrontCompiling ballads prepared German label AFM Records. It includes eighteen ballads by such prominent ensembles as SHAKRA, KROKUS, MASTERPLAN, EDGUY, UDO and other artists of the label ...

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FrontThe Rack Doll released its first two singles in 2013 – the idea was to introduce the debut album as soon as possible. However, life got in the way: the vocalist Minna Ora’s breast cancer diagnosis ruined the plan.During Minna Ora’s cancer treatments, the band continued to record in her studio ‘BlackMoon’ and the recordings of the LP are her work. The pace got slower for a while butthanks to good treatment results, the album Hot City is finally completed and will be released on 15 May 2015.

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FrontMOTHER MISERY - Deadication (swedish melodic rock)  Is already more than four years ago, which have brought out the Sweden of Mother Miseryein album? What are they doing in the north all the time anyway? But now enough to wait and so the Swedes deliver an EP with six new songs and the beautiful name Deadication...

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CoverOn June 26th, Massacre Records will release Cult, the brand new album by Finnish gothic metal band To/Die/For. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Juho Räihä in SoundSpiral Audio, with cover art created by Raziel Kainen at Dark-Prince Graphix.

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FrontAll original American hard rock band with plenty of sleazy swagger and bourbon soaked adrenalin to have you banging on the dashboard and screaming along at the top of your lungs. This is venomous, anthemic rock n' roll to raise your glass to..180% proof that the dream never dies.

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BILOXI IS BACK WITH THEIR THIRD POWERFUL SLICE OF MELODIC HARD ROCK FEATURING SOARING VOCALS AND TOP-NOTCH MUSICIANSHIP. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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coverSorrowfield returns with "The Great Day" from a very famous Fourth beat, let not Underground connoisseur notice immediately on the first pass. After a three-year-long break, which was indeed interrupted by the 2013er EP "Sax, Blood & Rock'n Roll", but this may not count, because I missed the EP at the time, all coals lay the Bremer Sympathen So again into the fire. In three great albums the guys may indeed look back, but the desire for further improvement in quality can be heard clearly in every note. It is this incentive is rewarded.

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Symphony X released a few days ago the single "Without You", a song from their upcoming album "Underworld".

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FrontThe ballads are back for the holidays. Following up on the success of the platinum certified, best selling collection Monster Ballads (2MM sold across two volumes and platinum editions), Monster Ballads Xmas puts the X in Christmas with rockin' renditions of favorite holiday tunes like "Silent Night," "Have Yourself a Marry little Christmas," and "White Christmas."

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